Houghton-le-Spring: Old Photographs of Houghton Le Spring

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The Houghton-le-Spring Heritage photo collection stands at over 5,000 images. This is a small selection. Click a photograph to view a larger size, then click BACK to return.

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Houghton Town Hall & Covered Market, 1900s

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Butchers at Cox's Indoor Market

The White Lion Public House

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Looking down on Houghton

The Market Place, Houghton-le-Spring

Nesham Place & Quality Hill, 1900s, 1916 & 1980

Church Street residents in 1900 & 1950s

Church Street a good few years apart

The Church Street Mechanics Institute

The Quay on Church Street

Houghton Presbyterian Church, 1970s

Kepier Grammar School in 1900, 1916 & 1973

Houghton Hall in the 1900s & 1949

Views of Houghton Hall 1950s & 1970s

Looking up the very steep Houghton Cut, 1900s

Looking down Houghton Cut in the 1930s & 1940s

The widening of Houghton Cut, early 1960s

Houghton Colliery views from the early 1900s

Views of Houghton Colliery in the late 1950s

The Old Hillside Cemetery on Houghton Cut

The Old Hillside Cemetery's lych gate and lodge

The New Cemetery on Durham Road in 1910 and 1911

Houghton Boating Lake, 1881, then when it was abandoned

Newbottle Street, the New Gaiety & Coliseum Theatres

Newbottle Street in the 1940s

Newbottle Street shops, looking south

Newbottle Street in 1950s & 1960s

Newbottle Street in the late 1950s

Sunderland Street, now mostly demolished

Coloured views of Sunderland Street c1900

Looking down Sunderland Street

Folk on Sunderland Street

Frederick Place just off Sunderland Street

Mautland Street Methodist Church in around 1976

Houghton Grammar School in the 1950s & 1960s

Houghton Junior School between 1908 & 1915

Photos of Houghton folk at work and play

Houghton Rovers Association Football team and others

The Rectory Gates and trams in the Broadway

The Broadway in c1910, 1947 & 1960s

Rare interior views of St Michael's Church 1900 - 1910

St Michael & All Angels Church in 1905 & 1920

St Michael & All Angels Church 1930 - 1932

St Michael's Church c1780 and 1909

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The choir singing from the Church tower

Houghton-le-Spring Cenotaph in 1925 & 1932

Houghton Feast and the Lake fairground

Houghton Rectory & Park Grounds

Houghton Rectory Park Unveiling 1949

Views of Houghton Rectory Park

Rectory Park in the Snow 1950s & 1970s

The Ancient Gilpin Thorn in 1949 & 1950

Houghtonside and FA Cup Parade Bus, 1973

The Gilpin Crest as found on a road sign in Houghton

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PAGE UPDATED: 06/08/2011

Photos of Houghton
Old photos of Houghton le Spring
Houghton Cemetery gates photo
Photos of Houghton Rectory Park
Old picture postcards of Houghton
Family photos
Christopher Plews, photographer, Sunderland Street, Houghton le Spring
Hunter, photographer, Sunderland Street, Houghton le Spring